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           Hey there, I stumbled upon this online and could not help but convey this heart touching message to all Nigerians . This is a message from a nigerian graduate SAMSON OLALEYE recorded on 1st October 2016, Our Independence Day by the sahara reporters. If you are a nigerian less bothered about the future I think its time you start thinking. Please watch video, comment and share till every nigerian has it. It makes no difference if it gets to the power house, I doubt if they haven't seen things like this before, but the issue is if they have plans to change our fate.

Rotimi Akeredolu has emerged the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State following the primary election which held in the Akure, Ondo State,  Jigawa State Governor, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, who is the chairman primary election committee of the party , announced Mr. Akeredolu as the winner of the poll at the international event center moments ago.  Governor Badaru described the conduct of the APC primary election producing Akeredolu asr the opposition party in the state as transparent and credible. He however, asked the unsuccessful aspirants in the election to pacify their supporters to join hands with Mr. Akeredolu in order to win the November 26th governorship election in the state. He disclosed that the party was prepared to defeat the ruling peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 26th governorship election in the Ondo State. The four aspirants are Chief  Olusola Oke,Dr Segun Abraham,  Senator Ajayi Boroffi...

The Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III announced earlier on friday after receiving information from the moon sighting committee and other committees in nigeria that Muslims will observe the Eid el-Kabir on Monday, September 12. In a statement signed by the chairman advisory committee on religious Affairs at the Sultanate council in Sokoto Sambo Junaidu, the committee together with the moon sighting committee received reports from various committees in Nigeria over the Eid el-Kabir. Junaidu said this followed the declaration of Saturday, September 3rd, as the first Zulhijja, 1437 AH (Islamic Month). Having accepted the committee reports the sultan further declared the Eid el-Kabir day, ..... Junaid . He further related that Monday, September 12, the 10th Zulhijja – will be marked as 2016 Eid el-Kabir. The Sultan also congratulated all Muslims in Nigeria and also wished them Allah’s guidance, protection and blessings while admonishing Muslims to pray to a cont...

The issue of seperation has been a fire kindling in the hearts of some nigerians, but do they really know what they would suffer? Or they ignorantly just want to follow the choice of the selfish elite leading them to their doom? The efik- ibibio and ijaw cried for their own state in nigeria some years back because they were fearful of the igbo's domination in their new BIAFRA . To oppose this motion they supported the federal government in the war against biafra. Seperation is no way favorable to any nigerian citizen accept to those elites that have stored stolen money somewhere only God knows to enjoy their loot. I read some article on The Nation Newspaper which made me want to emphasize more on this topic of seperation of the country. First lets start with what we are currently enjoying due to unity at the moment. 1. Nigeria is among the 15 most populous country in the world with its GDP of over $400 billion and a population high,giving us advantage of a bigge...

The Iranian government recently announced it would be opening the largest bookstore in the world – by square footage, during the coming months. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this title was held by the Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York City, which covered 154,250ft². Though the 5th Avenue flagship store closed down in 2014. This intention was as a result of some research carried out by the iranian government which shows that the iranians are drastically losing interest in reading. Bookstores in Iran are a rarity, with some 1,500 shops for a population of almost 80 million. There was a time when publishers gave books a print run of 3,300-5,500 copies. Now, the numbers have dropped drastically to 500, sometimes even 300 copies. ...Adopted from aeon.co The head of the Art and Cultural Organization of Tehran Municipality - Mr Mahamoud Salahi, announced that the bookstore named Bagh-e-Ketab (The Book Orchard/Garden) will be 484,376ft² (45,000m²), tripl...

Veteran Nollywood actress, Bukky Ajayi, is dead. Sources close to her said the respected thespian died an hour ago. Her last public appearance was at the 2016 African Magic Viewers Choice Awards-AMVCA in March were she gave a heart warming speech after receiving her lifetime achievement award. May her soul Rest In Peace.

At least 28 people have been killed in a triple suicide attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk international airport, the city’s governor said late Tuesday. “Three suicide bombers carried out an attack. Twenty-eight people have lost their lives. There are also 60 people injured,” Vasip Sahin told journalists.

A former Secretary to the State Government, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has been declared the winner of the Peoples Democratic Party gubernatorial primary held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, the state capital. Ize-Iyamu polled a total of 584 votes to defeat his two other opponents. The other aspirants, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen and Solomon Edebiri, had 91 and 38 votes to come second and third, respectively. Ize-Iyamu, who was the state campaign coordinator of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election, was declared as the winner by the Chairman of the PDP Primary Committee and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, at about 4pm. Umahi was accompanied by the Governors of Delta and Gombe States, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and Ibrahim Dakwambo. However, both Iduoriyekemwen and Edebiri staged a walkout prior to the announcement of the results.

An American-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 50 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation’s worst terror attack since 9/11, authorities said. The gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, Florida, was interviewed by the FBI in 2013 and 2014 but was not found to be a threat, the FBI said "Mateen called 911 during the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers, according to a U.S. official." Orlando police shot and killed Mateen. Mateen’s ex-wife said she thinks he was mentally ill. Mateen carried an assault rifle and a pistol into the packed Pulse club about 2 a.m. Sunday and started shooting, killing 50 people and wounding at least 53, police said. After a standoff of about three hours, while people trapped inside the club desperately called and messaged friends and relatives, police crashed into the building with an armored vehicle and ...

Coach Amodu Shaibu, four-time manager of the Nigerian Super Eagles and Technical Director of the NFF is dead.  Amodu Shaibu  died in Benin three days after the death of former Super Eagles Captain and Coach, Stephen Keshi, who also died in Benin. Reports have it that Shaibu Amodu complained of chest pains on Friday night and died in his sleep.

With the way technology is improving I'm starting to see the future already, I stumbled on a touching story of a designer who partnered with microsoft in designing a machine that actually communicates with plants.....LOL...that's pretty awkward right? A UK based designer, researcher and in my own word plant scientist Helene Steiner is working to digitally prove communication with plants using nature’s own language - electro-chemical signals, the project is dubbed ‘project florence’ and its a according to reports it could be a speculative glimpse into the future where both natural and digital worlds could co-exist in harmony through enhanced communications. Project Florence is a device created by designer and researcher Helene Steiner and Microsoft, it allows a user to communicate with a plant by typing in a message that is then translated into different frequencies and colors of lights,  and then analyzing electro chemical signals to come up with a response from...

Shell Companies in Nigeria (SCiN), in collaboration with the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) has launched the 2016-2017 stream of its Graduate internship programme.  This programme was developed to promote human capital development in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The 12-month programme supports manpower development in engineering and geology/geoscience disciplines and equips graduates with vital industry experience. PETAN has over 50 member companies that provide specialised services to the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The interns who participate in this programme will work in one of PETAN’s member companies for 12 months. Eligibility Criteria Include 1. The candidate must be an Engineering or a Geology/Geoscience graduate 2. The candidate must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service Corps year and have the discharge certificate 3. Candidate should not possess more than 3 years’ work experience post-NYSC 4. Candidat...

For years now, the U.S presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has been sounding the alarm on China, calling it an economic bully that has been “eating our lunch.” The crux of Mr. Trump’s attack is that Beijing manipulates its currency to keep it cheap and give Chinese exports an unfair advantage. But according to New York Times, that narrative is so last decade.  China is now a threat to the United States not because it is strong but because it is fragile. However Report shows how Four key forces has been shaping the rise and fall of nations since the 2008 financial crisis, and none of these forces bode well for China. As its Debts level has risen dangerously fast. Trade growth has collapsed everywhere in the world, a sharp blow to leading exporters, again led by China. Many countries are reverting to autocratic rule in an effort to fight the global slowdown, none more self-destructively than China. And, for reasons unrelated to the 2008 collapse, growth in the wo...

About 148 people were killed on Monday in bomb explosions in Jableh and Tartous on Syria’s Mediterranean coast on Monday in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases, Reuters quotes monitors and state media as saying. It was reported that at least 200 persons were wounded in the attacks claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in the cities, saying it was targeting members of President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 148 people were killed in attacks by at least five suicide bombers and two devices planted in cars. State media had said 78 people had been killed in what is Assad’s coastal heartland. The attacks were the first of their kind in Tartous, capital of Tartous province and home to a Russian naval facility, and in Jableh in Latakia province, near a Russian-operated air base. Sky News reports that 73 people were killed in Jableh and another 48 died in Tartus further south, th...

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi deployed a submarine last Thursday to the area where EgyptAir flight 804 crashed, he said it was an effort to locate the plane's flight voice and data recorders. Eagle View On The Spot Currently, the information gathered about what caused the Cairo-bound plane carrying 66 people to go down is still not sufficient enough. "It is very, very important to us that we know all the circumstances that caused this plane to go down," He said this in his first public remarks since the crash. The submarine was deployed from the Ministry of Petroleum, and is able to operate about 9,800 feet below sea level said the president. Some reporter from Reuters said , "Waters in the area of the Mediterranean under search could be [about 9,800 feet] deep, which would place the black box locator beacons on the edge of their detectable range from the surface." And according to npr reports, French investigators said the plan...

Lagos Logo The Lagos State government has started online registration of jobless people to enable it develop appropriate intervention programmes. The exercise, under the auspices of the Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment, will also provide data and profiles of jobless youths, with a view to training them. Unemployed youths are advised to register here  Or copy and paste this link on your browser http://wealthcreation.lagosstate.gov.ng/employment-registrationlagos. During the registration process, residents will be expected to provide pertinent information, including education level and skills.

Hilary Clinton, according to CNN knocked the businessman-turned-politician ( D onald Trump ) for not being specific on his economic plans. Hilary Clinton She says "Let's just imagine I am on a debate stage with Donald Trump, Now personally, I am really looking forward to that." Then she gave a scenario saying, "So let's suppose, here is the question, ' so what is your plan to create jobs ,' His answer is, 'I am going to create them, they are going to be great, I am going to do it. But I am not telling you what it is that I am going to do.' She then added, relating how specific it should be, "I am going to say, 'Here is what we are going to do, here is what we are going to do, here is how we are going to change the tax code, here is how we are going to incentivize people to do it.'"

Temperature at the town of Phalodi India hits 51 degrees Celsius breaking the previous record of 50.6 degrees Celsius, set in 1956. On thursday the heat in the town of Phalodi, the western state of Rajasthan, India, the hottest temperature ever was recorded which was about 51 degrees Celsius (approx---123.8 degrees Fahrenheit). Its capital, New Delhi, reached a temperature nearly 47 degrees Celsius on Wednesday. While towns in the state, like Churu, also recorded about 50 degrees Celsius (approx---122 degrees Fahrenheit) the same day. That's insanely hot, India has recorded higher than normal temperatures throughout this year and many areas are experiencing severe heat waves and state governments estimated that more than 370 people were killed so far.

EgyptAir flight 804 travelling from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar with 56 passengers and 10 crew members on board, this morning. French President Francois Hollande said in a televised address that the plane had crashed early on Thursday. The plane made “sudden swerves” mid-air and plunged before dropping off radars in the southern Mediterranean, Greece’s defence minister said. “At 3.39am the course of the aircraft was south and south-east of Kassos and Karpathos (islands) … immediately after it entered Cairo FIR and made swerves and a descent I describe; 90 degrees left and then 360 degrees to the right,” Defence Minister Panos Kammenos told a news conference. Greek authorities had mounted a search in the area south of the island of Karpathos without result so far, he said.

An EgyptAir flight traveling to Cairo from Paris disappeared from radar over the eastern Mediterranean Sea early Thursday with 66 passengers and crew members on board. Flight 804, an Airbus A320, was lost from radar at 2:30 a.m. Cairo time (8:30 p.m. EDT) when it was flying at 37,000 feet, the airline said. It added the Airbus A320 vanished 175 miles north of the Egyptian coast. The tracking website FlightAware showed the plane following its scheduled flight path before losing contact over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Egyptian armed forces were searching for the plane, which was carrying 56 passengers, including one child and two babies, and 10 crew. EgyptAir later confirmed the nationalities of those on board as including 15 French passengers, 30 Egyptians, one Briton, two Iraqis, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi, one Sudanese, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Algerian and one Canadian. Greece sent two aircraft to join the search and rescue operation: one C-130 and one early warning ai...